RUDOLF MEER - 18th Century Studies / Studies of Enlightenment

18th Century Studies and Studies of Enlightenment

Francis Bacon: Novum organum. London 1620, title page.

My research on the 18th century has its starting point in Kant’s philosophy. The focus is on the question of the sources of his theoretical philosophy, such as the theory of apperception, the concept of space and time, the regulative use of reason, etc. However, I also try to reconstruct and present the century in its thematic breadth. In particular, special emphasis is placed on studies of the Enlightenment. In various works, I ask myself whether, and if so, how, the Enlightenment can be understood as an epoch-spanning project.

Published Papers (Selection)

(with Gideon Stiening, Giuseppe Motta [ed.]): Konzepte der Einbildungskraft in der Philosophie, den Wissenschaften und den Künsten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2019.
“The Principle of the Transcendental Deduction. The First Section of the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding and its Relation to the Subsequent Section(s)”. Estudios Kantianos 4 (2019), 44–62.
(with Josef Hlade): “Auf der Suche nach dem besten aller möglichen Weltverbesserungsvorschläge”. Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary Yearbook for the Study of the 18th Century and the History of its Impact (2022), 257-266.
“Von den Grentzen der Sinnlichkeit und der Vernunft zur Idee der Critick der reinen Vernunft. Lamberts Einfluss auf Kants Denken zwischen 1770 und 1772”. In: Giuseppe Motta / Dennis Schulting / Udo Thiel, (eds.): Kant’s Transcendental Deduction and the Theory of Apperception. New Interpretations. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter (Studies on Kant: Supplement Issues) 2022, 275-306.
“Immanuel Kant und die Herausforderung einer sich selbst aufklärenden Vernunft”. In: Daniela Camhy (ed.): Enlightenment Today. Sapere aude! – Have Courage to Use Your Own Understanding. Baden-Baden: Academia 2020, 129–141.
“Methodologische Reflexionen zur neueren Biographik in der Aufklärungsforschung”. Enlightenment. Interdisciplinary Yearbook for the Study of the 18th Century and the History of its Impact 31 (2019), 335–341.
“Eingebildete Gegenstände. Kants Konzept des focus imaginarius im Spannungsfeld der Träume eines Geistersehers und der Kritik der reinen Vernunft”. In: Rudolf Meer, Gideon Stiening, Giuseppe Motta (eds.): Konzepte der Einbildungskraft in der Philosophie, den Wissenschaften und den Künsten des 18. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2019, 411–434.
“Apperzeption und Urteil. Analysen zum § 19 der Transzendentalen Analytik”. In: Udo Thiel, Giuseppe Motta (eds.): Immanuel Kant. Die Einheit des Bewusstseins. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter (Studies on Kant: Supplement Issues 197) 2017, 66–75.

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